Macau rejects more tables for Morpheus hotel

The government has rejected a request to add more live-dealer tables at the hotel, located in the City of Dreams Macau casino resort.

Macau.- Melco Resorts and Entertainment is set to open its US$1.1 billion Morpheus hotel at the City of Dreams Macau casino resort this Friday, but won’t be able to do exactly what it wanted to do. The Macau government rejected a request to add live-dealer tables at the venue both for its opening and the rest of 2018, and will only look into it again next year.

“The Macau SAR government has granted approval to the respective gaming concessionaire to transfer 40 gaming tables (not including slot machines) from its other casino properties to Morpheus in 2018,” the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) told GGRAsia, adding: “Next year (2019) the Macau SAR government will study whether it will allow the gaming concessionaire to add new gaming tables to Morpheus.”

“When reviewing the application for gaming tables, the Macau SAR government has strictly adhered to the principle of limiting the number of gaming tables to not exceed a three per cent annual compound growth rate for 10 years starting from 2013,” the body said.

In order to review its decision, the governing body will look into “the amount of non-gaming facilities, whether it will promote Macau as a ‘World Centre of Tourism and Leisure’, and if it will help to improve the quality, health and diversification of the Macau gaming industry.”